INTERNET AND MULTIMEDIA WEEK 3 

In this week we continue with the explanation about ‘’Plagiarism’’.This is a very extensive topic because it Involves many bad things.Firstable, plagiarism is a crime committed for a lot of people every day I almost all parts of the world. In our country this crime doesn’t have a penalty, since we are a children we commit plagiarism because we use someone else’s information, and we forget to mention the source, where the information comes from. This situation continues happening until now. Actually with technology we are able to access without problem to any kind of information from all parts of the world, we can download this information and we can copy and paste, but this is not the idea. We can use a lot of information sources in other to do a good essay, composition, research paper or something like that. I mean that we can use every single information that we find, but the idea is to think, reflect and after that make our own conclusions about it. We have millions of ways to use in a good way the information. I learned how to avoid this kid of electronic crime, only I have to follow a set of rules in different website that Teacher Wilma provides us. I will use these knowledge in my professional life every day when I have to do my Essays, Compositions, Researches, Homework, etc.And I think that is will be very useful when I have to do my final thesis.As a final point I am learning how to use the APA style to avoid plagiarism.  

I use these links to find more information about the topic

 

http://www.pointloma.edu/experience/academics/centers-institutes/center-teaching-learning/faculty-resources/academic-honesty/18-ways-prevent-plagiarism-student-papers

 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/

Why Use Forums?

Evaluating Websites

INTERNET AND MULTIMEDIA WEEK 2

 

In the second week, we continued with the use of the platform. There are a lot of new things to learn. First, we learned to enter to Virtual class, we had to follow these steps:

1.- Enter to Uta.edu.ec

2.- Click in Aula virtual

3.- Choose course categories (‘’facultad de ciencias humanas’’)

4.-Choose the subcategory (In this case ‘’Carrera de Idiomas’’)  

5.-Click in ‘’Quinto Semestre’’

6. - Click in INTERNET AND MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES

7.-Finally we have to log in typing our ID number and our password

After this process we started to use the platform. In the last class we learned how to participate in a forum discussion. It is really important to know about this topic because there are a lot of forums on the web about different topics such as: Politics, technology, environment, sports, music and so o. I think that is really important because in a forum we can express our personal Ideas. Also can interact with people from other countries. It is really important for me to know about different points of view based on real information of course, I mean investigations, scientific studies, etc. All of us participated in a Forum discussion that Teacher Wilma wrote on the platform about evaluating websites. I learned how to use this technologic tool and I will use it in different forums on the internet about any kind of topic as I mentioned before.

INTERNET AND MULTIMEDIA WEEK 1

In this first week I learned many interesting things about webpages that I didn’t Know. The teacher told us the guidelines for the semester, because if we need to pass the semester, we have to follow some rules; for example our teacher Wilma Suarez mentioned things related with responsibility about homework, assignments, and punctuality in class. I understand that these things are really important for university students. After that I learned how to recognize webpages? There are millions and millions of webpages in the word but only a few of them are reliable for downloading information or for sharing with other people. We are learning some steps as I mention before to recognize Safe websites. The teacher provides us a useful link with all tips and steps to recognize web sites. We have to complete and assignment in pairs about it.    
I can say that I´m learning because the activity is not complete yet. I am learning with some comparison exercises among websites. As I mention in the first part there are a lot of webpages on the Internet and is really important to know which one is the best to get information.  I am learning this topic with the homework that teacher gave us last class.
Nowadays this knowledge is very important, because we are living in a technological era and we must use technology to do anything. One of the most interesting tools that technology provides us is the internet, but sometimes is not safe. For this reason is really interesting to know about websites in order to get reliable information to do any kind of task.